Example sentences of "[vb base] never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 2 | He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers . |
| 3 | These characters I create never existed outside my own mind ’ . |
| 4 | But Osbern never ceased to be a rebel in the cause of the past , and the battle for Anglo-Saxon antiquity was only half won at Lanfranc 's death . |
| 5 | Weasel never gets near Hilde . |
| 6 | There were regular travellers whom they came to recognise , people who crossed the forest three or four times a year , foremen in charge of the great waggons of building-stones , or carters with consignments of wheat from the eastern cornlands , or drovers with herds of cattle or flocks of sheep … these last never ventured without a large escort . |
| 7 | ‘ You are quite sure that Riddle never came to this house ? ’ |
| 8 | The customers reply never mind about lunch , they will drink a carafe of wine and perhaps Madame has some bread and sausage ? |
| 9 | She rightly complained : ‘ Gustave never writes to me of anything except Art — or himself . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Half the world 's police and Interpol never got near him . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it is worth recalling that Foucault never starts at the political , but rather begins with a contemporary problem and then addresses questions to politics about it . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 13 | Do you honestly mean you 've never heard of Harry Pollitt ? ’ |
| 14 | If you believe what they say , they 've never heard of a little girl going missing ! ’ |
| 15 | I 've never heard of it . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never heard of anyone driving as many as 100 elephants at one time , ’ Douglas-Hamilton told the task force when we returned to Palembang . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never heard of you . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose we must have a few cousins several times removed floating about somewhere or other , but I 've never heard of them . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never heard of that , sir . ’ |
| 21 | Verily , thou art mistaken — I contacted Microvalue , and they 've never heard of it . |
| 22 | They 've never heard of glass houses . |
| 23 | I 've never heard of her in my life . ’ |
| 24 | The chances are that any LSE owner would have an appropriate button fitted as soon as possible , so if Lowden themselves fitted them , making sure the job was done elegantly , that would keep the guitar original and prevent any screw-ups by those amateur guitar repairers who 've never heard of pilot-holes … |
| 25 | I 've never heard of anyone else having the problem , but I ca n't be the only one who sweats like a pig ! ’ |
| 26 | I 've never heard of the make before ( Melos ) , but it 's a nice machine and I 'll be sorry when the tape wears out . |
| 27 | A club official said : ‘ I 've never heard of anything like it before . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never heard of an easy game against Arsenal and all matches at this stage are tough ones , ’ said Canaries ' manager Mike Walker . |
| 29 | And if , like us , you 've never heard of her , we should tell you that she plays his 14-year-old daughter in a romantic piece of ooh-la-la entitled My Father The Hero . |
| 30 | ‘ But I 've never heard of anything like this before . ’ |